Who is William Fichtner? See Net-worth, Quote, Awards, Fact, Wiki

William Edward Fichtner Wiki Biography

Edward William ‘Bill’ Fichtner, Jr. was born on 27 November 1957, on Mitchel Air Force Base, Long Island USA, to mother Patricia A. and father William E. Fichtner, of German, Irish and English ancestry. He is an actor, probably best known for his roles in the television series “Invasion” and “Prison Break”, and his many film roles, such as in “Armageddon”, “The Perfect Storm”, “Crash”, “The Longest Yard”, “The Dark Knight”, and “Phantom”.

A famous actor, how rich is William Fichtner? Sources state that Fichtner has acquired a net worth of over $8 million, as of mid-2016, earned largely during his acting career.

William Fichtner Net Worth $8 Million

Fichtner grew up in the Cheektowaga suburb of Buffalo, New York State, where he attended Marywale High School. Upon matriculating in 1974 he enrolled in Farmingdale State University in Long Island’, graduating with an associate degree in criminal justice. Upon his graduation in 1976 he attended SUNY Brockport arts college and graduated in 1978 with Bachelor of Arts degree also in criminal justice, but then enrolled in New York’s American Academy of Dramatic Arts to study acting.

Fichtner eventually launched his acting career with the role of Josh Snyder in the 1987 CBS soap opera “As the World Turns”. He also appeared in the television series “A Man Called Hawk” and “Baywatch” of the late ’80s. During the ’90s he was seen as Ryan in the series “Grace Under Fire”, and made several film appearances, such as in “Quiz Show”, “Virtuosity”, “Reckless”, “Heat”, “Contact”, “Armageddon” and “The Settlement”, establishing himself as a noted character actor. His net worth started to rise.

He entered the 2000s with a leading role in the film “Passion of Mind” as well as such minor roles as David Sullivan in the film “The Perfect Storm”, Mr. Walker in “Pearl Harbor” and as SFC Jeff Sanderson in “Black Hawk Down”. In 2004 Fichtner was cast as Flanagan in the popular film “Crash”, which brought him a Screen Actors Guild Outstanding Performance Award and a Best Acting Ensemble Award, and went on to appear in the films “Nine Lives”, “The Longest Yard” and “The Moguls” the following year. During this time he also starred in the television series “Invasion” as Sheriff Tom Underlay, the role which brought him a nomination for Saturn Award for Best Actor on Television. In 2006 he joined the cast of the popular series “Prison Break” during the series’ second season, playing the character of Alexander Mahone through three seasons until the series ended in 2009. In the meantime he appeared in the films “Ultraviolet” and “Blades of Glory”. His role as the Gotham National Bank manager in the 2008 film “The Dark Knight” was highly praised, and Fichtner’s performance in the 2011 film “Drive Angry” earned him a Chainsaw Award for Best Supporting Actor. All these appearances helped boost his net worth.

In 2013 he appeared in the films “Phantom”, “The Lone Ranger” and “Elysium”, as well as in the series “Crossing Lines”. He played Eric Sacks in the 2014 film “Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles” and appeared in the hit series “Empire” of the following year. His most recent appearances have been in the film “Independence Day: Resurgence” and the series “Mom”, both of 2016.

During his acting career, Fichtner has appeared in over 40 films and around 15 television series, which has enabled him to achieve Hollywood stardom and amass considerable personal wealth.

Aside from films and series, he has provided voice for the character Ken Rosenberg in the popular video games “Grand Theft Auto: Vice City” and “Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas”. He has also voiced Logan in the video game “Turok”, Master Sergeant Sandman in “Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3”, Butch Cavendish in “Disney Infinity” and The Shredder in “Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles”. All contributed to his net worth.

In his personal life, Fitchner was married to actress Betsy Aidem until their divorce in 1996; they have one child together. In 1998 he married actress Kimberly Kalil – the couple has one child and currently reside in Prague, Czech Republic.

Fichtner is a fan of the Buffalo Bills football team; he appeared in the team’s ad before the 2014 NFL season and also served as a narrator in the ESPN 30 for 30 documentary called “Four Falls of Buffalo” which portrayed the team’s four consecutive Super Bowl appearances.



Full Name William Fichtner
Net Worth $8 Million
Salary 2.5 million EUR
Date Of Birth November 27, 1956
Place Of Birth Mitchell Field Air Force Base, East Meadow, Long Island, New York, USA
Height 6′ 0½” (1.84 m)
Weight 70 kg
Profession Actor
Education Maryvale High School (Cheektowaga), Farmingdale State College, SUNY Brockport, American Academy of Dramatic Arts in New York
Nationality American
Spouse Kymberly Kalil (m. 1998), Betsy Aidem (divorced -1996)
Children Vangel Fichtner, Sam Fichtner, Manuella Willian, Valentina Willian
Parents Patricia A. Steitz, William E. Fichtner
Siblings Mary Fichtner, Patricia Fichtner, Pamela Fichtner, Margaret Fichtner
Facebook https://www.facebook.com/officialwilliamfichtner
Twitter https://twitter.com/bill_fichtner?lang=en
Instagram http://www.instagram.com/willianborges88
IMDB http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001209
Awards Chainsaw Award for Best Supporting Actor, Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture (2004)
Nominations Phoenix Film Critics Society Award for Best Cast, Saturn Award for Best Actor on Television, Gotham Award for Best Ensemble Cast
Movies “Invasion”, “Prison Break”, “Armageddon”, “The Perfect Storm”, “Crash”, “The Longest Yard”, “The Dark Knight”, “Phantom”
TV Shows “Crossing Lines” (2014), “Four Falls of Buffalo”, “Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3”, “Entourage”
Trademark
1 Attached earlobes
2 Deep gravelly commanding voice
3 Films often portray his characters as antagonistic, later evolving more towards a protagonistic quality (The Longest Yard (2005)).
Quote
1 I have no problem having any actor from anywhere play a role. I’m excited for any actor that gets a job, I truly am. Even if it’s a role that I’m up for and I don’t get it, I never begrudge any actor having it work out for them.
2 When I was younger, I never wanted to rehearse because I thought that someone would figure out I don’t know what I’m doing. Now I like to really spend the time and figure it out, and rehearsal is to try something that doesn’t work.
3 It’s not that there aren’t people who care creatively in the world of television, but there’s always a bit more time in making a movie. I always feel films are more of a creative journey.
4 Here’s the bottom line: I can’t play someone if I can’t figure out what he cares about. Everybody cares about something, even a rough character. It defines where we step in life. As soon as you find out what somebody cares about, then it all gets real.
5 What I truly get excited about is not the genre of a movie or the size of a part – it’s character. I like to find characters.
6 When you work on a Jerry Bruckheimer film, you can be sure of two things: no production value will be spared, and the catering will be as fine as any really really good restaurant. Jerry is an amazing producer, with a commitment to his films second to none.
Fact
1 Is a talented racing driver – overall winner of the 2011 Toyota Pro/Celebrity Race during the Grand Prix of Long Beach, finishing ahead of pro driver Ken Gushi.
2 Become the first person to receive a star on the Buffalo Niagara Film Festival’s Walk of Fame.
3 His favorite films include The Graduate (1967), The Godfather (1972), The Godfather: Part II (1974), Three Days of the Condor (1975), The Deer Hunter (1978) and Strictly Ballroom (1992).
4 Graduated from Farmingdale State College with an Associate degree n Criminal Justice in 1976, then transferred to SUNY Brockport.
5 He has German, Irish, English, and more distant Dutch, ancestry. Fichtner, Fiechtner, or any variant thereof is a surname originating from areas where German is spoken (Switzerland, Austria, Germany). Descendants of the Fichtner name are spread though Germany, Switzerland, Austria, Canada, the United States and even into modern-day Ukraine. Groups of Fichtners helped to colonize the early United States, with the emergence of Fichtners into Pennsylvania in the mid-1760s. Fichtners also settled in the Russian Empire as Catherine the Great opened up Russian lands to German settlement during the same period. The name is common especially in modern southern Germany. Fichtners also remain today living in the modern-day Ukraine and many live within the United States today in the Midwest and Northwest.
6 One of 115 people invited to join to the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts & Sciences [2007].
7 Is an avid hockey fan, particularly his favorite team the Buffalo Sabres. Once presented an award at the NHL Awards for the 2006/2007 season on June 14, 2007.
8 His sister teaches art at Lakeland High School in Shrub Oak, New York.
9 Attended American Academy of Dramatic Arts in New York, New York.
10 Attended high school at Maryvale High School in Cheektowaga, New York.
11 Has four sisters: Mary, Margaret, Pamela and Patricia.
12 The ring he constantly wears belonged to his grandfather, Theodore.
13 Graduated from SUNY Brockport in 1978 with a Bachelor of Science degree in criminal justice.
14 His sister is a major in the United States Air Force.

Actor

Title Year Status Character
Finding Steve McQueen 2017 post-production Enzo Rotella
Krystal 2017 post-production Dr. Farley
Stranded 2017 filming Mr. Waynewright
Hot Summer Nights 2016 post-production Shep
Last Days of Summer 2016 post-production Mike
The Gettysburg Address 2016 Documentary post-production John G. Nicolay (voice)
If filming Richard
St. Sebastian completed Jurgens
Mom 2016 TV Series Adam
Independence Day: Resurgence 2016 General Adams
American Wrestler: The Wizard 2016 Coach Plyler
Empire 2015-2016 TV Series Jameson Henthrop
Crossing Lines 2013-2014 TV Series Carl Hickman
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 2014 Eric Sacks
The Homesman 2014 Vester Belknap
Disney Infinity 2013 Video Game Butch Cavendish (voice)
Elysium 2013/I John Carlyle
The Lone Ranger 2013 Butch Cavendish
Phantom 2013/I Alex
Seal Team Six: The Raid on Osama Bin Laden 2012 TV Movie Mr. Guidry
Infex 2012 Video Game The Administrator (voice)
Wrong 2012/I Master Chang
She, Who Excels in Solitude 2012 Short Dr. Wallace
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 2011 Video Game Sandman (voice)
Entourage 2009-2011 TV Series Phil Yagoda
Drive Angry 2011 The Accountant
The Big Bang 2010 Poley
Date Night 2010 DA Frank Crenshaw
Forehead Tittaes 2010 Video short
Night and Day 2010 TV Movie Dan Hollister
Prison Break 2006-2009 TV Series Alex Mahone
Prison Break: The Final Break 2009 Video Alex Mahone
The Dark Knight 2008 Bank Manager
Turok 2008 Video Game Logan (voice)
Blades of Glory 2007 Darren MacElroy
Invasion 2005-2006 TV Series Sheriff Tom Underlay
First Snow 2006 Ed Jacomoi
Ultraviolet 2006 Garth
American Dad! 2005 TV Series Harland
Mr. & Mrs. Smith 2005 Dr. Wexler – Marriage Counselor (voice, uncredited)
Empire Falls 2005 TV Mini-Series Jimmy Minty
The Longest Yard 2005 Captain Knauer
The Amateurs 2005 Otis
The Chumscrubber 2005 Mr. Bill Stiffle
Nine Lives 2005 Andrew
Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas 2004 Video Game Ken Rosenberg (voice, as Bill Fichtner)
Crash 2004/I Flanagan
The West Wing 2004 TV Series Justice Christopher Mulready
MDs 2002 TV Series Dr. Bruce Kellerman
Equilibrium 2002 Jurgen
Grand Theft Auto: Vice City 2002 Video Game Ken Rosenberg (voice, as Willian Fichtner)
Julie Walking Home 2002 Henry
Black Hawk Down 2001 Sanderson
What’s the Worst That Could Happen? 2001 Detective Alex Tardio
Pearl Harbor 2001 Danny’s Father
Endsville 2000 Prince Victor
The Perfect Storm 2000 David ‘Sully’ Sullivan
Passion of Mind 2000 Aaron Reilly
Drowning Mona 2000 Phil Dearly
Go 1999 Burke
The Settlement 1999 Jerry
Armageddon 1998 Colonel Willie Sharp
Switchback 1997 Chief Jack McGinnis
Contact 1997 Kent
Albino Alligator 1996 Law
Heat 1995 Roger Van Zant
Reckless 1995 Rachel’s Father
Strange Days 1995 Dwayne Engelman
Virtuosity 1995 Wallace
Grace Under Fire 1994-1995 TV Series Ryan Sparks
The Underneath 1995 Tommy Dundee
A Father for Charlie 1995 TV Movie Sheriff
Quiz Show 1994 Stage Manager
Malcolm X 1992 Cop at Harlem Station (credit only)
Ramona! 1991 Bartender (uncredited)
Baywatch 1989 TV Series Howard Ganza
A Man Called Hawk 1989 TV Series Boros
As the World Turns 1987 TV Series Rod Landry

Producer

Title Year Status Character
Last Days of Summer 2016 producer post-production

Thanks

Title Year Status Character
Space Station 76 2014 special thanks
Behind the Scenes with ‘The Amateurs’ 2008 Video documentary short thanks
HBO First Look 2000 TV Series documentary special thanks – 1 episode

Self

Title Year Status Character
Bad IQ 2016 Documentary filming Himself
The Wright Stuff 2014 TV Series Himself – Guest Panelist
Riding the Rails of ‘The Lone Ranger’ 2013 Video short Himself
The Hero, the Psychopath and the Characters of Elysium 2013 Video documentary short Himself
The Lone Ranger: Becoming a Cowboy 2013 Video short Himself
Vivir de cine 2013 TV Series Himself
Made in Hollywood 2011-2013 TV Series Himself
Scatter My Ashes at Bergdorf’s 2013 Documentary Narrator (voice)
Speakeasy: With Paul F. Tompkins 2013 TV Series Himself
Below the Scenes 2013 Documentary short
Phase 7: The Making of a Nonfilm 2013 Video documentary short Himself
Toyota Pro/Celebrity Race 2012 TV Movie Himself
Toyota Pro/Celebrity Race 2011 TV Movie Himself
Up Close with Carrie Keagan 2011 TV Series Himself
The Being Frank Show 2010 TV Series Himself
Starz Inside: Unforgettably Evil 2009 TV Movie documentary Himself
Toyota Pro/Celebrity Race 2008 TV Movie Himself
Behind the Scenes with ‘The Amateurs’ 2008 Video documentary short Himself – ‘Otis’
2007 NHL Awards 2007 TV Special Himself
Square Off 2006 TV Series Himself
Toyota Pro/Celebrity Race 2006 TV Movie Himself
Scene Stealers 2002 Video documentary short Himself
The Essence of Combat: Making ‘Black Hawk Down’ 2002 Video documentary Himself
HBO First Look 2000 TV Series documentary Himself – ‘David ‘Sully’ Sullivan’

Archive Footage

Title Year Status Character
Le Fossoyeur de Films 2013 TV Mini-Series documentary
The Being Frank Show 2011-2012 TV Series Himself

Won Awards

Year Award Ceremony Nomination Movie
2006 Gold Derby Award Gold Derby Awards Ensemble Cast Crash (2004)
2006 Actor Screen Actors Guild Awards Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture Crash (2004)
2005 ACCA Awards Circuit Community Awards Best Cast Ensemble Crash (2004)
2005 Hollywood Film Award Hollywood Film Awards Ensemble of the Year Crash (2004)

Nominated Awards

Year Award Ceremony Nomination Movie
2006 Saturn Award Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror Films, USA Best Actor on Television Invasion (2005)
2005 Gotham Independent Film Award Gotham Awards Best Ensemble Performance Nine Lives (2005)
2005 Gotham Independent Film Award Gotham Awards Best Ensemble Performance Crash (2004)
2002 PFCS Award Phoenix Film Critics Society Awards Best Acting Ensemble Black Hawk Down (2001)

2nd Place Awards

Year Award Ceremony Nomination Movie
2012 Chainsaw Award Fangoria Chainsaw Awards Best Supporting Actor Drive Angry (2011)

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